I think worship is overstating the attitude. Things I admire: his scale of vision (replace fossil fuels, expand beyond earth, augment human intelligence); his

I think worship is overstating the attitude. Things I admire: his scale of vision (replace fossil fuels, expand beyond earth, augment human intelligence); his willingness to go for clean-sheet designs; his persistence, iterating and learning from failures; his personal commitment, both in working on and financing his ideas; his obvious enjoyment of his work. Thing I dislike: over-hyping things; driving employees too hard; being too thin-skinned; the personal attacks, especially in public; his general appearance of being gleefully unaware of his own privilege. If he went home to his family and workshop in the relatively modest Musk compound instead of hanging out with stars, private-jetting around the world, and being a jerk on Twitter, I'd be more impressed. But I think a part of the attraction is that he seems like "one of us": an engineer who (like us, in our dreams) has taken the napkin projects from a long session at the pub, and made them real.